Monday 13 June 2011

Early History of Cricket : The most popular game in the world.









Cricket match: one of the main world sport in terms of participants, media and spectators in the world.


The Word “Cricket” comes from Middle Dutch krick(-e) which means a stick. Some experts of Cricket think that “Cricket” comes from English cricc or cryce which means a crutch or staff.

When or where cricket began first, no one knew the exact time and place. It strongly assumed that cricket was devised by children first.In 1550, John Derrick and his school friends had played creckett on the site fifty years ago when they attended the Free school.

In the middle of seventeenth century village cricket had developed where country cricket had not invested for arranging the cricket match all over the country.

In 1751 cricket was becoming popular and spreading out throughout England.Bowling methods for line,length and pace began in 1760.

In 1844, the first international cricket game was held between the United State of America and Canada at ground of the St George's Cricket Club in New York.

Fundamental rules of cricket such as wicket, bat, ball, over and pitch had existed from many years ago like first introduction of cricket.

In 1774 Cricket laws were determined for the first time as well as amended such as maximum bat width,lbw and middle stamp factor,Umpaire decision is the final decision of the play ground.

Some remarkable and prominent clubs names were London , Dartford, clubs at Maidenhead, Hornchurch, Chertsey, Hadlow, Bromley, Sevenoaks, Addington, and Maidstone.

The official County Championship was constituted in England in 1890. In the 1960s, English county teams began playing a new format of cricket with games of only one innings each and a maximum number of overs per innings. It was the introduction of limited overs cricket game system as a knockout competition which was becoming very popular gradually.Cricket television ratings for cricket coverage increased for the limited overs game.

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